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authorDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2018-03-11 13:34:25 +0300
committerDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2018-03-25 19:08:51 +0300
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syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel
The syscall entry points to the kernel defined by SYSCALL_DEFINEx() and COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() should only be called from userspace through kernel entry points, but not from the kernel itself. This will allow cleanups and optimizations to the entry paths *and* to the parts of the kernel code which currently need to pretend to be userspace in order to make use of syscalls. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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